发布时间：2026-11-04T21:00:02.261Z
不受欢迎的总统、极具号召力的民主党候选人，以及近期选举中表现逊于其他共和党的现任参议员，这三股因素将密西西比州的美国参议院竞选变成了中期选举中一场惊心动魄的拉锯战。
截至周三下午，民主党人斯科特·科洛姆以仅几十票的差距领先参议员辛迪·海德·史密斯，这场竞争结果仍难定论，但凸显了中期选举即使在共和党铁票州也出现了向民主党大幅倾斜的趋势。
更新于美国东部时间下午6:44
预计
96%
选票已统计
| 候选人 | 得票率 | 得票数 |
| — | — | — |
| 斯科特·科洛姆（民主党） | 47.6% | 451,748 |
| 辛迪·海德·史密斯*（共和党） | 42.9% | 407,014 |
| 泰·平金斯（独立人士） | 1.5% | 13,787 |
科洛姆的竞选团队表示，这场竞选最终可能取决于约15,000张有待验证的临时选票。但与此同时，双方均表示相信自己将获胜。
“一旦验票流程完成，了解选票的去向和归属，我们就会赢得胜利，”科洛姆在周三的新闻发布会上表示，“这是因为密西西比州的选民以创纪录的投票率参与，才让这场中期选举的竞选变得如此激烈。”
海德·史密斯的竞选经理杰克·蒙森在一份声明中表示，团队正“密切关注”这场竞选中仍未统计的数千张选票。
“我们仍然相信，当每一张合法投出的选票都得到充分、准确的统计后，密西西比州民众会选择连任辛迪·海德·史密斯，”他补充道。
这场胶着的竞选源于科洛姆持续不懈的造势——他希望成为重建时期以来密西西比州首位黑人参议员。这位43岁的地方检察官多次指出，共和党的不利因素，以及该州占选民总数35%的黑人选民群体（占比为全美各州最高），只要投入足够的关注度和资金，就能让这个共和党堡垒州的竞选拥有竞争力。
他确实获得了这些支持：多个民主党超级政治行动委员会（Super PAC）在竞选最后时刻投放了广告，且包括前副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯在内的多位该党重量级人物，都在竞选的最后几周加入了他的造势活动。
民主联盟（由自由主义捐赠者组成的网络）等组织也进行了早期投资，打造支持该州民主党的基础设施，包括协助美国全国有色人种协进会（NAACP）的州分支开设11个选民登记点，以提高黑人选民的投票率。该协会表示，今年已登记了超过17,000名选民。
根据美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）的选民调查，黑人选民占本次选举选民总数的约30%，且几乎全部将票投给了科洛姆。
“密西西比州民众踊跃投票，震惊了全国，”美国全国有色人种协进会主席兼首席执行官德里克·约翰逊周三在一份声明中表示。
在共和党一方，唐纳德·特朗普总统加入了海德·史密斯的最后一刻造势集会，试图提高该州的投票率——两年前特朗普曾以23个百分点的优势赢得该州。2018年首次进入参议院后，海德·史密斯的表现长期不如特朗普；2020年，她以10个百分点的优势赢得首个完整任期，而当年特朗普在密西西比州的胜幅为16个百分点。
不过，在她的任期内，海德·史密斯也为科洛姆的挑战埋下了伏笔——2023年她阻止了科洛姆获得联邦法官提名，尽管科洛姆获得了其他共和党人的支持，包括该州资深参议员罗杰·威克。
她反对自由主义亿万富翁乔治·索罗斯向支持科洛姆首次地方检察官竞选的政治行动委员会捐款。她还以科洛姆2021年签署一份谴责“将跨性别者和性别肯定医疗保健刑事化”的信件为由，提出了反对理由。
在最近接受CNN采访时，科洛姆坚称他挑战海德·史密斯的竞选并非出于个人恩怨。“我是基督徒，我原谅她，”他说，“我没有获得联邦法官职位，根本不是我参选的动机。”
相反，他认为这位参议员在参议院未能为选民服务。
科洛姆的竞选团队投放了一些中期选举中最受关注的广告，指出现任参议员已与密西西比州民众的经济困境脱节。其中一段视频嘲笑海德·史密斯被问及牛肉价格上涨时说“有很多蛋白质可选”的言论。
“选另一种蛋白质？她简直疯了。我宁愿选另一位参议员，”广告中一名女子用南方口音说道，该广告迅速在网上传播。
竞选期间，科洛姆撤下了另一则广告——该广告使用人工智能生成了海德·史密斯在州检察长林恩·菲奇威胁对他采取法律行动后逃离记者的画面。
随着计票继续，双方目前都在为关于选举结果的法律对决做准备。
选民权益倡导者和法律观察人士预计，最早可能要到下周才能得到初步结果：约15,000张临时选票（该州称为“宣誓选票”）中，经核实后有多少会进入最终计票。密西西比州的几个县已经启动了这一流程。
密西西比州使用临时选票的原因有多种，例如没有带照片的身份证件、选民未在选民名册中找到（可能因被标记为非活跃选民），或是选民提交了不完整的选民登记表格。
选民权益倡导者预计，非活跃选民投出的宣誓选票将占很大比例，因为该州在本次选举周期首次使用商业信用数据程序清理选民名册。这些选民无需采取额外步骤即可核实资格，但那些缺少带照片身份证件或有其他问题的选民将需要采取行动来确认他们的选票有效。
除了统计临时选票，选举官员还会计算该州允许的五天宽限期内寄达的邮寄选票——这些选票需有妥善的邮戳，才能由选举办公室接收。预计这一数量会少于待处理的宣誓选票。
CNN的亚当·坎克林和安妮·格雷格为本文报道做出了贡献。
How Mississippi became an unlikely Senate battleground
Published Time: 2026-11-04T21:00:02.261Z
An unpopular president, a charismatic Democratic candidate and an incumbent who has underperformed other Republicans in recent elections have turned a US Senate race in Mississippi into the nail-biter of the midterms.
As of Wednesday afternoon, Democrat Scott Colom was just a few dozen votes ahead of Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in a contest that remains too close to call but underscores the midterms’ seismic shift toward Democrats, even in deep-red territory.
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| CANDIDATE | VOTES |
| — | — |
| Scott Colom Democratic | 47.6% 451,748 |
| Cindy Hyde-Smith* Republican | 42.9% 407,014 |
| Ty Pinkins Independent | 1.5% 13,787 |
The race could come down to roughly 15,000 provisional ballots, according to Colom’s campaign, still pending verification. But in the meantime, both sides expressed confidence they will prevail.
“Once the process plays out, where we are, where the ballots are, we’re gonna win,” Colom said during a news conference Wednesday. “And it’s because the people of Mississippi turned out in historic numbers to make this race possible in a midterm election.”
In a statement, Hyde-Smith campaign manager Jake Monssen said the team is “closely monitoring” the thousands of ballots still outstanding in the race.
“We remain confident that when every legally cast vote is fully and accurately counted, Mississippians will have reelected Cindy Hyde-Smith,” he added.
The close race comes after Colom campaigned relentlessly to become the first Black senator from Mississippi since the Reconstruction era. The 43-year-old local district attorney argued repeatedly that the Republican headwinds and state’s significant Black electorate – which at 35% is the largest of any state – would put the GOP bastion in contention with enough attention and money.
He got both, with several Democratic super PACs making last-minute ad buys and a parade of his party’s biggest names, includingformer Vice President Kamala Harris, joining him on the stump in the campaign’s waning weeks.
Groups such as the Democracy Alliance – a network of liberal donors – also made early investments to build the infrastructure to support Democrats in the state, including helping the state branch of the NAACP open 11 voter registration sites to boost Black turnout. The NAACP said it registered more than 17,000 voters this year.
Black voters made up about 30% of voters in the race, according to the CNN Voter Poll, with nearly all of them breaking for Colom.
“Mississippians showed up and shocked the nation,” Derrick Johnson, the president and CEO of the NAACP, said in a statement Wednesday.
On the Republican side, President Donald Trump joined Hyde-Smith for an eleventh-hour rally to boost turnout in a state he won by 23 points just two years ago. Hyde-Smith has historically underperformed Trump after she was first appointed to the Senate 2018. In 2020, she won her first full term by 10 points, while Trump won Mississippi by 16 points that year.
During her tenure, however, Hyde-Smith also laid the groundwork for Colom’s challenge when she blocked his nomination to a federal judgeship in 2023, although Colom had the backing of other Republicans, including Sen. Roger Wicker, the state’s senior senator.
She objected to a donation by liberal billionaire George Soros to a PAC that backed Colom’s first district attorney race. She also cited Colom’s decision to sign a 2021 letter that condemned “the criminalization of transgender people and gender-affirming healthcare.”
In a recent interview with CNN, Colom insisted his campaign to oust Hyde-Smith is not a grudge match. “I’m a Christian. I forgive her,” he said. “Me not having a federal judgeship is not a motivating factor for me at all.”
Instead, he’s argued that the senator has failed her constituents in the Senate.
Colom’s campaign has unleashed some of the most attention-getting ads of the midterms to argue that the incumbent had lost touch with Mississippian’s economic pain. One video mocked Hyde-Smith for remarking that are “so many proteins to choose from” when asked about rising beef prices.
“Pick another protein? She done lost her damn mind. I’d rather pick another senator,” one woman drawled in the ad that quickly went viral.
During the campaign, Colom deleted another ad that featured an artificial intelligence-generated depiction of Hyde-Smith running away from reporters after the state Attorney General Lynn Fitch threatened legal action against him.
Both sides now are gearing up for a legal showdown over the results as the ballot count continues.
Voter advocates and legal observers expect it could take until next week, at the earliest, for initial indications of how many of the roughly 15,000 provisional ballots – known in the state as “affidavit ballots” – will go into the final count after being vetted. Several counties in Mississippi have already started that process.
Provisional ballots are used in Mississippi for a number of reasons, such as a lack of a photo ID, a voter not being found in the pollbook — which can happen if a voter was tagged as inactive — or people submitting incomplete voter registration forms.
Voter advocates expect affidavit ballots cast by inactive voters to make up a significant share, because of a commercial credit data program the state used for the first time this cycle to clean its rolls. Those voters shouldn’t need to take extra steps to see their eligibility verified, but those who were missing photo ID or had other issues will need take action to cure their ballots.
In addition to canvassing the provisional ballots, election officials will also be counting mail ballots that arrive within a five-day grace period the state allows for properly postmarked absentee ballots to be received by the elections office. That number is expected to be smaller than the affidavit ballots to be processed.
CNN’s Adam Cancryn and Annie Grayer contributed to this report.
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